JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI

Avery Fisher career grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has created a sensation in recent seasons with appearances as soloist with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, and at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she made her New York recital début in 2004. As part of the European Concert Hall Organization’s Rising Stars series, Ms Frautschi also made débuts that year at ten of Europe’s most celebrated concert venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Salzburg Mozarteum, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and La Cité de la Musique in Paris.

She has recorded several discs for Naxos, including a GRAMMY®-nominated recording of Schoenberg’s Concerto for StringQuartet and Orchestra (8.557520), and the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London (8.557508), both conducted by the legendary Robert Craft. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous loan to her from a private American foundation.